NEW YORK (PNN) - January 26, 2016 - Following December's disappointing drop in Services PMI data, January's initial print of 53.7 (missing expectations of 54.0) is the weakest since December 2014. It appears the "manufacturing recession doesn't matter" meme was wrong after all. As Markit notes, the survey data paint an inauspicious start to the year for the Fascist Police States of Amerika economy.

Social unrest may be unavoidable.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (PNN) - November 27, 2015 - Last week, we brought you the latest from Puerto Rico’s debt debacle. The commonwealth is desperately trying to restructure some $72 billion in debt while staring down a $354 million bond payment due on December 1.

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (PNN) - January 16, 2016 - Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores and laying off thousands of employees.

The move will affect more than 16,000 employees, including 10,000 in the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

The closings include 154 locations in the FPSA - 102 of which are the company’s smallest stores, called Wal-Mart Express, which have been in pilot since 2011.

LONDON, England (PNN) - November 20, 2015 - The cost of shipping commodities fell to a record, amid signs that Chinese demand growth for iron ore and coal is slowing, hurting the industry’s biggest source of cargoes.

Unprecedented chaos is coming.

NEW YORK (PNN) - January 8, 2016 - We have never had a year start the way that 2016 has started. In the Fascist Police States of Amerika, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 have both posted their worst four-day starts to a year ever. Canadian stocks are now down 21% since September, and it has been an absolute bloodbath in Europe over the past four days. Of course the primary catalyst for all of this is what has been going on in China. There has been an emergency suspension of trading in China two times within the past four days, and nobody is quite certain what is going to happen next. Eventually this wave of panic selling will settle down, but that won’t mean that this crisis will be over. In fact, what is coming is going to be much worse than what we have already seen.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - November 6, 2015 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the Fascist Police States of Amerika economy created 271,000 jobs in October, a number substantially in excess of the expected 175,000 to 190,000 jobs. The unexpected job gain has dropped the unemployment rate to 5%. These two numbers will be the focus of the financial media presstitutes.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (PNN) - January 8, 2016 - Brazil’s industrial production fell more than all analyst forecasts in November, underscoring the challenge that policy makers face in pulling Latin America’s largest economy out of its worst slump in decades.